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Date: 1712

"Fancy governs the Blood--and when the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite-- the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies."

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

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Date: 1712

"[W]hen the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

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Date: 1712

Appetite is "the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

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Date: 1712

" But as the Passions of the Human Mind / Must strictly be to Nature's Laws confin'd,"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.